Before My Time is about the ancestry and extended family of my four grandparents: John Samuel Krentz (Indiana/North Dakota), Margreta Tjode Hedwig (Gertie) Buss (North Dakota), Rosmer Pettis Kerr (Pennsylvania/Michigan), and Evelyn Elvina Hauer (Michigan), and other topics in genealogy and family history.

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Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Hannah Gardner, born 4 September 1812. To whom, I do not know. There is conflicting information about her birthplace (Pennsylvania or New York). Hannah was the first wife of Robert Kerr. She died 30 January 1842 at the young age of 29 years, 4 months, 26 days. She's buried at Union Cemetery in Oil Creek Township, Crawford County, Pennsylvania. Hannah was my fourth great-grandmother.

At present, I know nothing more about my Gardner line.

Hannah was mentioned in the "Clann Cearr" typescript (see Surname: Kerr), but no dates were included there. I found them in the snippet view of Patricia Foster Heinen's Kerr: The Kerr Families of Early Oil Creek Township, Crawford Co., PA (P. F. Heinen, 1993) at Google Books.

I'm sure there's much more I'll want to see in the 556 pages of this book. There's a copy at Wisconsin Historical Society and another at Benson Memorial Library in Titusville, PA.

Our Family in Books: A Bibliography

My Ancestors in Books (a library of resources and notes pertaining to Reverend Samuel Stone, Major General Robert Sedgwick, Elder John Crandall, and other early Americans in the forest where my family tree was grown)

History of St. James Lutheran Church [full title: A little of this and a little of that in the 141 year (1861-2002) History of St. James Lutheran Church, Reynolds Indiana] by Harold B. Dodge, published at Reynolds, Indiana, 2002; 170 pages.

Lisbon, North Dakota 1880-2005 Quasuicentennial, published at Lisbon, North Dakota in 2005; 391 pages.